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  2. List of lynching victims in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mobile: Alabama: October 6, 1906: Assaulting white women [212] Davis, Henry African-American Annapolis: Anne Arundel: Maryland December 21, 1906 Assaulting a white woman Dragged from his jail cell and shot over 100 times. Last known lynching in Anne Arundel County. [100] [213] Pitts, Slab: African-American: Toyah: Reeves: Texas: 1906: Living ...

  3. Lynching of Michael Donald - Wikipedia

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    The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. [ 1][ 2] Several Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members beat and killed Michael Donald, a 19-year-old African-American, and hung his body from a tree. One perpetrator, Henry Hays, was executed by electric chair in 1997, while ...

  4. List of people from Mobile, Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Michael Knight, university professor and author. William March, author and World War I veteran. William P. McGivern, author. Albert Murray, Author. John Travis Nixon, newspaper publisher in Monroe and Crowley, Louisiana; formerly worked as a journalist in Mobile; died in Mobile in 1909 [ 2] Michelle Richmond, author.

  5. List of driver deaths in motorsport - Wikipedia

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    This is a list alphabetically sorted, and structured after the kind of competition, of the more notable driver deaths, excluding those of motorcycle riders. In addition, several racing drivers have been killed in public road crashes; see List of people who died in road accidents.

  6. List of jockeys - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable jockeys, ... covering jockeys who have competed worldwide in all forms of horse racing ... This page was last edited on 29 July 2024, ...

  7. Bob Baffert - Wikipedia

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    Bob Baffert. Robert A. Baffert (born January 13, 1953) is an American racehorse trainer who is considered one of the most successful and influential trainers in the history of horse racing. He has trained two Triple Crown winners: American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018.

  8. Category:Jockeys who died while racing - Wikipedia

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    Jack Westrope. Otto Wonderly. George Woolf. Categories: Deaths by horse-riding accident. Jockeys. Sports competitors who died in competition.

  9. History of Mobile, Alabama - Wikipedia

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    History of Alabama. Mobile was founded as the capital of colonial French Louisiana in 1702 and remained a part of New France for over 60 years. During 1720, when France warred with Spain, Mobile was on the battlefront, so the capital moved west to Biloxi. [1] In 1763, Britain took control of the colony following their victory in the Seven Years ...